The Failure in Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Despite efforts to improve ties with the Baloch, the civilian government has failed to address the human rights crisis, restrict the extra-constitutional role of the Frontier Crops, or bring Baloch armed groups to the negotiating table
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A Baloch perspective on the Balochistan problem
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Renowned journalist Kiran Nazish reviewed my book, The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement for the fresh edition of The Friday Times (Lahore), Pakistan’s first independent English weekly. I am reproducing the piece here for the interest of my readers. Balochistan is an important but complicated issue. The stability of the province is indispensable not … Read more
Watch That Tail
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 11, 2011 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Ten years after the launching of the war against Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the menace of terrorism continues to pose a threat to global peace as vehemently as it did on September 11, 2011. For the United States of America, the war is far from over in spite of the death of … Read more
Disappearances and Assassinations
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In its annual Pakistan Security Report 2010, the Islamabad-based independent think-tank, Pakistan Institute for Peace (PIPS), has described Balochistan as the country’s “most violent” province during the year 2010. While the resource-rich province witnessed a 7 percent decrease in the overall number of violent attacks as compared to 2009, an alarming 43 percent increase in … Read more
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Sikandar Hayat Jamali (1942-2009)
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 1, 2009 · 13 Comments
Shahida Jaffrey Jamali remembers her illustrious husband Sikandar Hayat Jamali was the older son of Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali, the great politician and a founder of Pakistan, from Rojhan Jamali, Jaffrabad, Balochistan. Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali was a close associate of the Quaid-e-Azam and was the leader who obtained Balochistan as a part of Pakistan. … Read more
Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 21, 2009 · 5 Comments
<img By Malik Siraj Akbar “I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from … Read more
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IA Rehman Interview in The Friday Times
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 13, 2009 · 2 Comments
“The government is afraid of the mullahs” – IA Rehman, Director Human Rights Commission of Pakistan By Syed Hussain IA Rehman, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, is a veteran journalist and human rights activist. A former editor-in-chief of the Pakistan Times, he has been at the forefront of the struggle for greater … Read more
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THE FRIDAY TIMES: Trouble in Layyah
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 13, 2009 · 2 Comments
By Syed Hussain Pakistani civil society has been protesting controversial and discriminatory laws since General Zia-ul Haq enacted them in the 1980s. Now these laws are seen as tools extremists use against their social and political opponents LAYYAH: On the evening of February 9, 2009, several thousand protestors – over 10,000 according to independent sources … Read more
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Khalid Hasan, great journalist, great man
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 7, 2009 · 2 Comments
Editorial of Daily Times Saturday, February 07, 2009 Khalid Hasan (1937-2009) has died in Washington DC on Friday where he began living in 2000 and became correspondent for The Friday Times (TFT) and Daily Times (DT) in 2002. People who have known him personally will mourn him deeply because of his generosity and an ever-ready … Read more
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Khalid Hasan passes away
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 6, 2009 · 3 Comments
I just got the news from DawnNews that senior journalist, author and translator Khalid Hassan has passed away. He was working as the Washington correspondent of Daily Times and the Friday TImes. Undoubtedly, we have lost an exceptionally outstanding journalist. I have been reading Mr. Hasan’s thought-provoking and witty pieces in The Friday Times and … Read more
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